Here's the Bitmob Community Jukebox. It's a bit early and that's weird, but there's a reason. Hit that big ol' ramp link to find out why.

This week I bring you the Bitmob Community Jukebox two days early. This is because the new school year has started for me, and, when I began the Jukebox four weeks ago, I had no idea what my schedule would look like.

On top of working nearly full time, I'm a double major with a minor and  a full course load, and on Wednesday it came to my attention that I would either be busy at school or work from 11:00 AM EST or 12:00 AM EST. (This also, unfortunately, means I'll posting less in the way of articles - especially since I committed to helping out Omar Yusuf and Lance Darnell with their periodic features - but everyone can still count on me to read your stuff and comment on it.)

I love you guys, but, if I'm honest, I'd slit a baby kitten's throat to maintain my happy 3.7 GPA. If this game journo thing doesn't work out, I need a back-up plan. And after all is said and done, I'm looking at graduate school, since I can't seem to hold menial labor job for more than two years - to the exclusion of carpentry, which I did for five years, and if I was forced to, could plausibly do for the rest of my life.

Anyway, rather that cheat you out of five days of music by waiting until next Monday, I decided to move the schedule up. That way you folks get all the sweet bleeps and bloops you've been waiting for early, rather than late. Hereafter, Community Jukebox updates can be expected on Monday, after I've had the weekend for a bit of breathing room and brainstorming time. 

Word to the wise, this schedule may get revised again come spring semester.

Anyway, let's get back to the Jukebox.

For all you newcomers, here's how it is. Even though I've done a Meet the Mob, there is something important you should know about me.

For some reason, over the years, my mind has acted as a sort of a Roledex for great videogame ditties.  (For all you youngsters out there, a Rolodex is an archaic device that people used to keep important contact information on. I guess it's sort of like an abacus at this point.)

Because of this, every Monday I will be posting fifteen well-known and not-so-well-known videogame songs.

There's a catch however, or in the words of Ron Popeil, creator of the Showtime Rotisserie,"But wait! There's more!." 

I will not be providing all of the songs; I'll provide only ten. The rest will be suggested - hopefully songs I've never heard - and out of all of the suggestions, I will choose five to round out the fifteen.

Ultimately, I would like enough suggestions to switch over to five or even one song donated by myself, thus truly making it the Community Jukebox.

It's important to note that all submissions will be credited to the community members who provided them.

The only guidelines are that any song chosen must be from a non-music game, or from a music game with original content. Licensed songs are also OK, but they must be from something other than a music game.

This means that Fallout and Grand Theft Auto songs are fair game, whereas Guitar Hero and Rock Band songs aren't. If licensed songs become too prolific, however, I may stop taking them as submissions.

I hope these limitations are to stifling. As Ron Popeil says, "Now how much would you pay!?" After all, the entertainment is free.

Also, to note, I will try my hardest  to find the original names of every song, yours or mine, but if I can't, I will give it a name, and mark it with an asterisk. In addition, all songs are set to open in a new tab, so feel free to click away and have them play in the background as you surf Bitmob or get some work done.

Songs appear in no particular order whatsoever, save that community submissions will be segmented from my choices and shown last.

Each week, I will also be choosing my favorite submission, The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week. The winner will receive exactly nothing, except being last song with this beside their entry: ++good.

As a small guideline, if you'd like to win the The Double-Plus Good Pick of the Week, try to pick something obscure or, at the very least, recent. We all know titles like Mega Man and Final Fantasy had great music  in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, and I will be featuring songs like these every week (that's my bread and butter).

But, in the interest of keeping the Jukebox new and surprising,  if you can come up with a great song that I've forgotten, or, better yet, never heard, you'll have a leg up on the competition. Just keep in mind what I said at the top, and if you've my Meet the Mob, the size of my game case.

Either way, feel free to submit whatever you like. Please. I can't reinforce enough that all submissions are welcome.

As an added bonus, I will also try to add an immediate comment about the awesomeness of the winner commenter's song and why everyone else should pay special attention to it. This will be an in-joke for those who keep up.

Most importantly, since I hope to keep doing this for awhile, only one submission response per person per post. That way I'll have less to parse, and you folks will be able to submit for an extended period of time. If you sumbit multiple requests, I will not listen to any of them.

Again, only one submission response per person per post.

Anyway, onto the show.

There are two ways to listen:

Method 1: Pick and Choose

1. 'Splosion Man – Everybody Love Donuts  (This one goes out to Brian Shirk for his awesome 'Splosion Man review)

2. Legend of Mana – The Wind Sings of a Journey

3. Tiny Toons Adventures: Buster Busts Loose – Space Opera

4. Grandia - Mullen

5. Actraiser - Peaceful World

6. Gitaroo Man - Bee'Jam Blues

7. Tekken Tag Tournament – Opening Theme

8. The Guardian Legend – Stage 1*

9. Serf City – Main Theme*

10.  Katamari Damacy - Que Sera Sera

Community Jukebox

11. Chrono Trigger - To Far Away Times suggested by Brian Shirk

12. Dragon Quest VIII - Overture - suggested by Lance Darnell

13. Chrono Trigger - Chrono Trigger - suggested by Alex R. Cronk-Young

14. Final Fantast VII - Electric de Chocobo - suggested by Jason Wilson

15. Conker's Bad Fur Day - Windy - suggested by Evan Killham++good

Method 2: Let It Ride (click here to listen in a separate window)

~James D. The Sophist

P.S. Any feedback about the addition of the Let It Ride feature added in Jukebox #3 would be great. It takes a bit of work to set up a Youtube playlist, and I'm wondering if you guys like enough for me to keep putting in the work. (If it makes it any clearer, it adds about a half an hour of work to each Jukebox).

It has the added benefit of you folks being able to press play and hear all the songs in a row without attending the Youtube  window. Or in the immortal words of informercial guru Ron Popeil, to "set it and forget it!"